[f. L. collocāt- ppl. stem of collocāre: see prec. Cf. F. colloquer.]
a. trans. To place side by side, or in some relation to each other; to arrange. b. To set in a place or position.
1513. More, Rich. III. (1641), 406. To marshall and collocate in order his battailes.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 22. This bone beyng in the middest of the body collocated, and most excellently setled.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 145/1. Collocate the Patient on a closestoole.
1647. Lilly, Chr. Astrol., 814. Generally we expect good from those houses where the Fortunes are radically collocated.
1846. G. S. Faber, Tractar. Secession, 81. Original Sin (somewhat oddly collocated in the list).
1849. Murchison, Siluria, iii. 52. The older rocks are abruptly collocated.
Hence Collocated ppl. a., Collocating vbl. sb.
1836. I. Taylor, Phys. Th. Another Life (1857), 235. The two collocated systems.
1851. Nichol, Archit. Heav., 177. The analogy or group of collocated events is the bud of mighty truth.
